Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378
Barcode 515306
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11 Senator Bullard moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 7. It is the intent of the Legislature to
18 reduce the number of arrests for people with serious mental
19 illnesses and reduce the use of force-related injuries
20 involving people with serious mental illnesses. Therefore, the
21 Department of Law Enforcement is authorized to adopt the
22 Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.) program as a pilot program
23 to provide lessons for its statewide use by other law
24 enforcement agencies.
25 Section 8. The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health
26 Institute at the University of South Florida shall conduct a
27 study of the Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.) program being
28 used by the members of the Florida C.I.T. Coalition, which is
29 a coalition of several counties involving law enforcement
30 agencies, community providers, and families and consumers
31 developing the core standards for a consistent C.I.T. program
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378
Barcode 515306
1 for the state. The purpose of the study is to look at the
2 effectiveness of the C.I.T. program related to a reduction in
3 arrests for people with serious mental illnesses as well as an
4 increase in jail diversion activities, a reduction in the use
5 of force-related injuries, and identification of those core
6 elements of the C.I.T. program that make it an effective
7 police response. The institute, in conjunction with the
8 Florida C.I.T. Coalition, shall submit a report of the
9 findings of its study, which shall include recommendations as
10 to whether the C.I.T. program should be adopted by all law
11 enforcement agencies as a best practice, recommendations as to
12 the resources necessary to assist communities in adopting the
13 C.I.T. program, and recommendations as to other training needs
14 for law enforcement agencies related to people with serious
15 mental illnesses, to the Legislature and the Department of Law
16 Enforcement by July 1, 2006.
17 Section 9. The Department of Law Enforcement is
18 authorized to use up to $175,000 to contract with the Louis de
19 la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute to implement sections
20 7 and 8 of this act.
21 Section 10. Except for sections 7, 8, and 9 of this
22 act and this section, which shall take effect upon becoming a
23 law, this act shall take effect July 1, 2005.
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27 And the title is amended as follows:
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31 An act relating to health; providing
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 1872 & 2378
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1 legislative intent; amending s. 20.435, F.S.;
2 authorizing use of funds in the Biomedical
3 Research Trust Fund administered by the
4 Department of Health for the purposes of the
5 Florida Center for Universal Research to
6 Eradicate Disease; amending s. 561.121, F.S.;
7 redistributing certain funds collected from
8 taxes on alcoholic beverages; amending s.
9 381.855, F.S.; revising the purpose of the
10 Florida Center for Universal Research to
11 Eradicate Disease; requiring the center to
12 provide grants for cancer research and
13 Alzheimer's disease research; revising
14 membership of the center's advisory council;
15 providing procedures for the awarding of grants
16 for cancer research and Alzheimer's disease
17 research; amending s. 381.921, F.S.; revising a
18 goal of the Florida Cancer Council; amending s.
19 1004.445, F.S.; renaming the Johnnie B. Byrd,
20 Sr., Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute
21 as the "Ronald Reagan Alzheimer's Center and
22 Research Institute"; providing for adoption of
23 the Crisis Intervention Team program as a pilot
24 program; directing the Louis de la Parte
25 Florida Mental Health Institute at the
26 University of South Florida to conduct a study
27 of the Crisis Intervention Team (C.I.T.)
28 program; providing the purpose of the study;
29 providing for a report; providing for funding;
30 providing effective dates.
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